Complementary Courses in Other Departments

LISTINGS BY CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS: 

The appearance of a course on these lists of recommended courses does not guarantee that the Department running this course and the instructor will grant permission to a student from Cultural Studies to take this course in 2014-15; please always inquire about the feasibility of taking these courses this academic year. Please also verify the term (Fall or Winter) on the Minerva system, as scheduling may change.

There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Cultural Studies program credit. If you feel you have identified a course with a strong Cultural Studies methodology and/or list of readings, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

 

Courses in Cultural Studies with a Canadian Component

• CANS 301: Popular Music in Quebec (Fall)
• CANS 315: Indigenous Art and Culture (Fall)
• CANS 501 Interdisciplinary and Canadian Studies: The Canadian North – Then and Now (Fall)
• ARTH 421: Canadian Art and Race  (Fall)
• FREN 252: Littérature Québécoise (Fall) [in French]

Courses in Cultural Studies with an Historical Dimension

• ARTH 321 Visual Culture (Fall)  
• ITAL 374 Classics of Italian Cinema (Fall)
• JWST 309 Jews in Film (Winter)
• EAST 454 Topics in Chinese Cinema (Fall)
• EAST 467 Japanese Cinema (Winter)
• MUAR 392 Popular Music after 1945 (Winter)

Cultural Studies 400-level Courses with a Theoretical Component

• ANTH 408 Sensory Ethnography (Fall)
• COMS 400 Critical Theory Seminar (Fall)
• COMS 492 Power, Difference and Justice: Queer Theory and Visual Culture (Fall)
• LLCU 255 - Introduction to Literary Text Mining (Fall)
• LLCU 300 - Cinema and the Visual (Winter)
• LLCU 301 - Topics in Culture and Thought (Winter)
• LLCU 311 - Digital Studies/Citizenry (Fall)

Major Figures

• GERM 367 Topics in German Thought: Karl Marx (Winter)

All Accepted Cultural Studies Courses in Other Departments in Alphabetical Order:

Anthropology

• ANTH 355 Theories of Culture and Society (Winter)
• ANTH 408 Sensory Ethnography (Fall) 

Art History

• ARTH 321 Visual Culture of the Dutch Republic (Fall)
• ARTH 325 Visual Culture of the Renaissance (Winter)
• ARTH 421  Canadian Art and Race (Fall)

Canadian Studies

• CANS 301 Popular Music in Quebec (Fall)
• CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture (Fall)
• CANS 501 Interdisciplinary and Canadian Studies: The Canadian North – Then and Now (Fall)

Communication Studies

• COMS 300 Media and Modernity in the 20th Century (Winter)
• COMS 361 Selected Topics in Communication Studies 1: Media and the City” (Fall)
• COMS 400 Critical Theory Seminar (Fall)
• COMS 492 Power, Difference and Justice: Queer Theory and Visual Culture (Fall)

East Asian Studies

• EAST 353 Approaches to Chinese Cinema (Winter)
• EAST 362 Japanese Cinema (Fall)
• EAST 454 Topics in Chinese Cinema—Reinventing Cinema in Post-Mao China (Fall)
• EAST 467 Japanese Cinema (Winter)

French Language and Literature

• FREN 252 — Littérature Québécoise (Fall) (in French)
• FREN 311 Cinéma français 2 (in French) (Fall)

German Studies

• GERM 367 Topics in German Thought: Karl Marx (Winter)

Hispanic Studies

• HISP 341 Spanish Cinema (in Spanish) – (Fall)

Italian Studies

• ITAL 374 Classics of Italian Cinema (Fall) 

Jewish Studies

• JWST 309 Jews in Film (Winter)

Language, Literatures and Cultures

• LLCU 255 - Introduction to Literary Text Mining (Fall)
• LLCU 300 - Cinema and the Visual (Winter)
• LLCU 311 - Digital Studies/Citizenry (Fall)
• LLCU 301 - Topics in Culture and Thought (Winter)

Linguistics

• LING 200 Introduction to the Study of Language (Fall & Winter)
• LING 201 Introduction to Linguistics (Fall & Winter)
• LING 320 Sociolinguistics 1 (Winter)

Music

• MUAR 392 Popular Music after 1945 (Winter)
• MUAR 399 Music and Queer Identity (Winter)

Philosophy

• PHIL 242 Introduction to Feminist Theory (Fall)
• PHIL 336 Aesthetics (Fall)
• PHIL 436 Aesthetics 2 (Winter)

Institute for the Public Life of Art and Ideas

• PLAI 400 Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities: Sensibility and the Self (Winter)

Sociology

• SOC 318 Television and Society (Fall) 

Women’s Studies

• WMST 200 Introduction to Women’s Studies (Fall)

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LISTINGS BY DRAMA AND THEATRE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS: 

Drama and Theatre: courses of interest in other departments 2014/2015
This list comprises 2014-15 courses in other departments that might be accepted by your advisor for credit towards your Drama and Theatre program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2014-15. Do not take these courses in a different year and assume that they will count towards your Drama and Theatre program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.

There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Drama and Theatre program credit. If you feel you have identified a course with a strong Drama and Theatre methodology and/or list of readings, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

Courses are listed first by Drama and Theatre program requirements they fulfil and thereafter in alphabetical order by department.
Online Faculty of Arts course catalogue for 2014-15 can be found here:https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2014-2015/faculties/arts/undergraduate/courses

 

Courses in a Major Figure in Drama and Theatre

• RUSS 330 Chekhov without Borders (Winter) 

Courses in Drama and Theatre with a Canadian Component:

• None offered this year; please choose from Department of English course list.

Courses in Theatre History:

• None offered this year; choose from Department of English course list. 

Courses in Drama and Theatre with an Historical Dimension:

• None offered this year; choose from Department of English course list. 

Courses in Drama and Theatre before 1900

• CLAS 423 Advanced Ancient Greek: Drama (reading in Ancient Greek) (Winter)
• HISP 326 - Spanish Romanticism: Public Sphere and Theatricality (in Spanish) (Fall)
• PLAI 400 Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities: Sensibility and the Self (Winter) 

400-level Drama and Theatre courses with Theoretical Component

• ARTH 479 Studies – Modern Art and Theoretical Problems (Fall)

All Accepted Drama and Theatre Courses in Other Departments in Alphabetical Order:

Art History

• ARTH 339 Critical Issues – Contemporary Art (Fall)
• ARTH 479 Studies – Modern Art and Theoretical Problems (Fall)

Classics

• CLAS 423 Advanced Ancient Greek: Drama (reading in Ancient Greek) (Winter)

Hispanic Studies

• HISP 326 - Spanish Romanticism: Public Sphere and Theatricality (in Spanish) (Fall)

Institute for the Public Life of Art and Ideas

• PLAI 400 Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities: Sensibility and the Self (Winter)

Philosophy

• PHIL 242 Introduction to Feminist Theory (Fall)
• PHIL 336 Aesthetics (Fall)
• PHIL 436 Aesthetics 2 (Winter)

Russian Studies

• RUSS 330 Chekhov without Borders (Winter)

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LITERATURE:

This list comprises 2014-15 courses in other departments that might be accepted by your advisor for credit towards your Literature program. Please consult an advisor about where one of these courses might be appropriately placed in your Program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2014-15. If you take these courses in a different year, do not assume that they will count towards your Literature program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.
There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Literature Program credit. If you feel you have identified an appropriate course, please show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

• HISP 303 Hispanic Literature and Culture in English: Borges: The Universal Reader (Fall)
• ITAL 345 Dante and the Middle Ages (Fall)
• JWST 323 The Israeli Novel in Comparative Context: Faulkner and Yehoshua (Winter)
• JWST 349 Modern Jewish Studies: Jewish Women’s poetry (Winter)
• JWST 351 Studies in Modern Jewish Literature: A comparative study of Canadian and American Jewish novels (Fall)
• JWST 386 American Jewish Literature (Winter)
• RUSS 454 Narratives of Desire (Winter)